I allowed myself to use the internet for half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening. Just to relax a bit and write something on here or surf the net. I need my daily dosage of internet. Today I have to go to the post office and mail off 19 letters to France, the UK and the Netherlands and a package to Scotland [I promised A. to take care of his mail too so it’s not all mine].
Then I will have most of the day to sort out boxes and in the evening vulture #2 will have a look at the apt. Hopefully he will accept some of the stuff that we would like to leave here so I don’t have to rip it all out. It’s going to be a hectic move. Landlords these days or not that easy going anymore. AS. was surprised to hear what we will have to do still before we move out; remove shelves and fill holes in walls, remove carpets, clean the house etc. It will take another day to sort all this out.
It would have been easier if JK. could’ve taken the place because we already discussed what she wanted me to leave behind, which was most of the stuff that we will have to throw out now. She was also willing to pay the deposit. I guess all this happens for a reason and I’m trying hard not to think too much about it and accept things the way they are, which is hard at times. Chantal will come over and meet up tomorrow evening. I promised her my espresso machine. On Friday DM. will come over for coffee and hopefully she will take one of the workbenches that are in the spare room.
I’d rather give it to friends instead of having to throw everything out. Last week I’ve put some stuff outside the day previous to collecting the garbage and everything was gone the next morning. I was very pleased with that. It means people took it and hopefully will use it. I chucked out a crappy BBQ but that thing was gone too. Amazing to see what people take. I hope they will enjoy it! It’s such a shame to throw out perfectly good stuff and watching it getting wrecked by the garbage truck.
Anyways, I’d better start the day since I had my half an hour already and get into my favourite thing to do… Talk later
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Murphy’s Law
“A mathematician, a psychologist and an economist commissioned by British Gas have finally put into mathematical terms what we all knew: that things don’t just go wrong, they do so at the most annoying moment.The formula, ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)), indicates that to beat Murphy’s Law (a.k.a. Sod’s Law) you need to change one of the parameter: U for urgency, C for complexity, I for importance, S for skill, F for frequency and A for aggravation. Or in the researchers’ own words: “If you haven’t got the skill to do something important, leave it alone. If something is urgent or complex, find a simple way to do it. If something going wrong will particularly aggravate you, make certain you know how to do it.” Don’t you like it when maths back up common sense ?”
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I need to pack boxes as you probably know by now. Unfortunately I’m feeling ill due to a cold. Don’t ask me how or why but my system ran down for some reason: running nose, watery eyes, fatigue, slight headache, sneezing. Could also be severe symptoms of hay fever though. I have no idea but it does bother me because I can’t do a thing; I start sneezing for at least ten minutes. I’m on a tight schedule and can’t afford to lose time on being ill. I lost time yesterday already because I needed to catch up some sleep for a while.
I couldn’t sleep at all Saturday night. We went back to CH. at 21.30 to drop off some more stuff and then we stayed till two in the morning. We sat outside in the garden. I had to drive back because CH. and AS. had been drinking. It was 02.30 when we went to bed. I slept for about an hour and then I was wide awake till seven. No fun, tossing and turning. It was way too hot in the house! The heat is staying in the house at night it’s still 28°C so if I don’t use a fan in the bedroom then we’ll be awake all night. It’s the second heatwave in July this year and to be honest, I had enough of it. I’m dying for some rain and thunder!!!
I thought I would feel better when I woke up this morning but I guess I was wrong; I’m still sneezing and I still feel drained although I slept quite well. I have a lot to do today but I don’t think I will be able to do it being in a state of constant sneezing. I have to go and sort out my passport and send some stuff through snail mail. All official paperwork. Well I’d better go and do something… I will split the list in half and do some of the stuff today and some of it tomorrow. Talk later, it’s time for me to get started after taking some meds and making my fav chili/ginger tea.